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South-West Series 


SPELLING BOOKS 


BY 

LULU MARIE JENKINS, Ph.D. 

Adjunct Professor of Educational Psychology 
in the University of Texas 

ARTHUR WILSON fVANS, Ph.D. 

Head of Department of Education in the Texas 
Technological College 

CHARLES MARVIN ROGERS, M.A. 

Supervisor of Junior and Senior High Schools in the 
Amarillo Public Schools 


PART ONE 

Grades One Through Four 



THE SOUTHWEST PRESS 


DALLAS 


TEXAS 




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Copyright, 1931, by 
THE SOUTHWEST PRESS 



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MADE IN U. S. A. 


PRESS OF 

BRAUN WORTH & CO.. INC. 
BOOK MANUFACTURERS 
BROOKLYN. NEW YORK 



To 

THE BOYS AND GIRLS 
of the 

SOUTH-WEST 






PREFACE 


Spelling is one of the simple and refined practical 
arts. Its chief purpose is that of enabling anyone to 
engage in self-expression and preserve the results in set 
form. 

As an exact study, it ranks highest among the school 
subjects. Errors in spelling can not escape detection. 
No difference of opinion can rightfully exist in regard 
to the spelling of most words; reference to competent 
authority will immediately settle any difference that may 
arise. 

To learn to spell is a definite task that may be under¬ 
taken with the assurance that it can be actually com¬ 
pleted. Acting on this assumption, the authors of 
South-west Series Spelling Books have assayed the 
task of presenting to the elementary pupil and providing 
for the spelling mastery of the three to four thousand 
words most necessary in his writing and reading. These 
were determined by scientific research, which is explained 
in the Teachers Manual. Then arose the practical task 
of placing the words in the grade best suited, organiz¬ 
ing them into lesson units, and providing exercises for 
handling spelling disabilities—all of which are neces¬ 
sary to give the child mastery of the spelling process 
so that it may be correctly and habitually carried on. 

While no startling innovations have been proposed, 
the psychological approach is utilized at every step. 


VI 


PREFACE 


The word is presented as a separate teaching act. 
After it is studied it is repeated in review the following 
day. The more difficult words are again reviewed in 
a later lesson. Further provision is made for using the 
word in a sentence or other activity. This cycling 
process is carefully arranged to make use of repetition 
and association in the final mastery of the word. 

A Teachers Manual to accompany the text gives a 
thorough understanding of the plan and purpose of the 
book, and provides abundant helps for the busy teacher. 

The varied experiences of the authors in the class¬ 
room were freely drawn upon to make the book at once 
practical and usable. If spelling is made more interest¬ 
ing and vital to the boy and girl of the elementary 
grades, and its mastery of the words ordinarily used 
by him rendered more certain, the purposes of this 
book will have been abundantly realized. 

A. W. E. 

L. M. J. 

C. M. R. 


FIRST AND SECOND GRADES 


To the Teacher : 

The aim in presenting spelling to groups of 
children in these grades is largely that of orienta¬ 
tion. There should be very few assignments for 
individual seat study. The results are more effec¬ 
tive when the teacher and children study together. 
The lessons should be developed by the teacher 
from the blackboard. Every child should have 
some part in the recitation. No class period 
should close until each has 

(1) pronounced the word 

(2) spelled the word from the blackboard 

(3) written the word on the blackboard cor¬ 
rectly and neatly 

(4) used or is able to use the word in a sentence. 


Thus, the child becomes orientated into spelling 
by 

(1) seeing the word 

(2) hearing the word 

(3) vocalizing the word 

(4) writing the word 

If taught in this way, spelling may advanta¬ 
geously be added to the curriculum of the first 
grade at the beginning of the second semester. 


FIRST GRADE 


1 


UNIT ONE 



I am a cat. 

































2 SPELLING BOOKS—PART ONE 

UNIT TWO 


1 

2 

3 

4 

boy 

girl 

• rat 

tree 

cat 

boy 

boy 

rat 

am 

cat 

girl 

girl 


UNIT THREE 


1 

2 

3 

4 

the 

is 

not 

it 

tree 

the 

is 

not 

boy 

rat 

the 

girl 


UNIT FOUR 


1 

2 

3 

4 

no 

yes 

and 

to 

it 

no 

yes 

and 

the 

is 

not 

it 


FIRST GRADE 


UNIT FIVE 



Run, run, run! 
Run, little dog, 
Run and play. 














4 


SPELLING BOOKS—PART ONE 


UNIT SIX 


1 

2 

3 

4 

can 

ran 

hop 

go 

play 

can 

ran 

hop 

little 

dog 

play 

little 



UNIT 

SEVEN 


1 

2 

3 

4 

on 

of 

at 

or 

go 

on 

of 

at 

to 

run 

yes 

hop 



UNIT 

EIGHT 


i 

2 

3 

4 

top 

spin 

fun 

toy 

or 

top 

spin 

fun 

go 

not 

tree 

ran 


FIRST GRADE 


5 


UNIT NINE 











6 SPELLING BOOKS—PART ONE 

UNIT TEN 


1 

2 

3 

4 

hog 

sun 

hat 

pin 

pig 

hog 

sun 

hat 

toy 

big 

is 

this 


UNIT ELEVEN 


1 

2 

3 

4 

an 

do 

for 

by 

pin 

an 

do 

for 

toy 

big 

is 

this 



UNIT TWELVE 


1 

2 

3 

4 

baby 

love 

like 

are 

by 

baby 

love 

like 

for 

little 

spin 

toy 


FIRST GRADE 


UNIT THIRTEEN 



See this big cow. 
She is my cow. 








8 


SPELLING BOOKS—PART ONE 


UNIT FOURTEEN 


1 

2 

3 

4 

he 

we 

his 

her 

she 

he 

we 

his 

cow 

see 

my 

are 



UNIT 

FIFTEEN 


1 

2 

3 

4 

you 

your 

our 

us 

he 

you 

your 

our 

are 

like 

baby 

love 



UNIT SIXTEEN 


1 

2 

3 

4 

say 

may 

sit 

hot 

us 

say 

may 

sit 

her 

your 

his 

our 


FIRST GRADE 


9 


FIRST GRADE WORD LIST 


am 

girl 

may 

say 

an 

g° 

me 

see 

and 

got 

my 

she 

at 



sit 


hand 

no 

spin 

be 

hat 

not 

sun 

big 

her 

now 

the 

this 

boy 

by 

his 

hog 

of 


hot 

on 

to 

can 


or 

toy 

cat 

I 


tree 

cow 

in 

Pig 

1 1 c 


is 

pin 

Li O 

do 

it 

pky 

we 

dog 





little 

ran 

yes 

far 


rat 

you 

fun 

mat 

run 

your 


10 


SPELLING BOOKS—PART ONE 


Boys and girls : 

This is a spelling book. In Spelling, we learn 
to spell words. We need to know how to spell 
words so that we can write. Our eyes, our ears, 
our voices, and our hands are helpers in learning 
to spell. What does each one do to help us? 

We see the word. 

We hear the word. 

We say the word. 

We write the word. 

Before we can spell words we must know all of 
the letters in the alphabet and be able to write 
them in regular order. 


THE ALPHABET 

ABCDEFGHIJKLM 
NOPQRSTUVWXYZ 
abcdefghijklm 
nopqrstuvwx yz 



SECOND 

GRADE 

11 


UNIT ONE 



Can you 



1 

2 

3 

4 

hop 

run 

walk 

play 

see 

skip 

talk 

jump 

big 

see 

skip 

talk 

little 

hop 

boy 

walk 

baby 

like 

run 

girl 


UNIT TWO 
Word Opposites 


1 

2 

well 

sad 

sick 

glad 

play 

sick 

jump 

well 

skip 

run 


3 

4 

good 

rich 

bad 

poor 

glad 

bad 

sad 

good 

walk 

hop 



12 


SPELLING BOOKS—PART ONE 


UNIT THREE 



Parts of the 

Body 


1 

2 

3 

4 

ear 

foot 

arm 

lip 

eye 

feet 

hand 

leg 

poor 

ear 

feet 

hand 

rich 

eye 

foot 

arm 

sick 

poor 

glad 

well 


UNIT FOUR 


Birds 


1 

2 

3 

4 

bird 

sing 

egg 

fly 

nest 

song 

lay 

try 

Hp 

nest 

song 

lay 

leg 

bird 

sing 

egg 

eye 

ear 

hand 

feet 


SECOND GRADE 


13 


UNIT FIVE 


What is alike in these words? 


1 

2 

3 

4 

all 

let 

way 

ate 

call 

met 

away 

rate 

try 

call 

met 

away 

fly 

all 

let 

way 

sing 

nest 

bird 

egg 



UNIT SIX 



Word Opposites 


1 

2 

3 

4 

down 

far 

wet 

lost 

up 

near 

dry 

found 

rate 

up 

near 

dry 

ate 

down 

far 

wet 

call 

away 

met 

ate 


14 

SPELLING BOOKS— 

■PART ONE 



UNIT SEVEN 



Animals 


1 

2 

3 

4 

OX 

mules 

fox 

pony 

oxen 

burro 

wolf 

horse 

found 

oxen 

mules 

wolf 

lost 

ox 

burro 

fox 

near 

down 

found 

lost 



UNIT EIGHT 



The Flag 


l 

2 

3 

4 

flag 

red 

white 

blue 

over 

our 

with 

true 

horse 

over 

our 

with 

pony 

flag 

red 

white 

burro 

wolf 

horse 

oxen 



SECOND GRADE 

UNIT NINE 

Review 

1 

1 

2 

3 

4 

jump 

ear 

way 

pony 

skip 

arm 

rate 

fox 

talk 

foot 

let 

mules 

play 

lip 

call 

oxen 

see 

leg 

away 

horse 

sad 

song 

found 

flag 

rich 

lay 

dry 

over 

good 

fly 

wet 

red 

sick 

nest 

far 

with 

poor 

bird 

down 

blue 


BIRDS 
The birds sing. 

They fly and fly. 

They have nests. 

The birds fly to the nests. 
They lay eggs in the nests. 


16 SPELLING BOOKS—PART ONE 


UNIT TEN 
Can you spell... 


1 

2 

3 

4 

so 

box 

was 

if 

did 

but 

were 

its 

true 

did 

but 

were 

blue 

so 

box 

was 

our 

over 

true 

white 


UNIT ELEVEN 
Thanksgiving 

1 2 3 4 

Thanksgiving cake eat buy 

dinner make meat store 

its Thanksgiving make meat 

if dinner cake eat 

box its but 


were 



SECOND GRADE 


17 


UNIT TWELVE 
I have a. 


1 

2 

3 

ball 

chair 

doll 

dress 

table 

book 

store 

dress 

table 

buy 

ball 

chair 

Thanksgiving 

dinner 

meat 


UNIT THIRTEEN 
Christmas 


1 

2 

3 

Christmas 

candle 

light 

Santa Claus candy 

bright 

boat 

Santa Claus 

candy 

ring 

Christmas 

candle 

table 

chair 

boat 


4 

boat 

ring 

book 

doll 

store 


4 

gift 

popcorn 

bright 

light 

dress 



18 


SPELLING BOOKS—PART ONE 


UNIT FOURTEEN 
Word Opposites 


1 

2 

3 

4 

fast 

soft 

few 

open 

slow 

hard 

many 

shut 

popcorn 

slow 

hard 

many 

gift 

fast 

soft 

few 

candy 

Christmas 

gift 

Santa Claus 



UNIT FIFTEEN 




New Year 


l 

2 

3 

4 

new 

story 

star 

New Year 

year 

stories 

twinkle 

bell 

shut 

year 

stories 

twinkle 

open 

new 

story 

star 

slow 

soft 

many 

open 


SECOND GRADE 


19 


UNIT SIXTEEN 
The Winter 


1 

2 

3 

4 

cold 

snow 

rain 

hail 

cool 

blow 

wind 

ice 

bell 

cool 

blow 

wind 

New Year 

cold 

snow 

rain 

stories 

year 

twinkle 

story 



UNIT SEVENTEEN 



Past and 

Present 


1 

2 

3 

4 

get 

take 

sell 

give 

got 

took 

sold 

gave 

ice 

got 

took 

sold 

hail 

get 

take 

sell 

cool 

wind 

hail 

rain 


20 SPELLING BOOKS—PART ONE 


UNIT EIGHTEEN 
Review 


SO 

ball 

shut 

cold 

did 

book 

few 

snow 

was 

ring 

hard 

blow 

if 

doll 

fast 

wind 

were 

table 

soft 

hail 

Thanksgiving candle 

New Year 

give 

dinner 

bright 

bell 

take 

make 

Christmas 

star 

took 

buy 

Santa Claus 

twinkle 

sold 

eat 

popcorn 

stories 

gave 


LITTLE WIND 

Little wind, blow on the hill-top, 

Little wind, blow down the plain; 
Little wind, blow up the sunshine, 
Little wind, blow off the rain. 

—Kate Greenaway 



SECOND GRADE 

2: 


UNIT NINETEEN 



Word Building 


1 

2 

3 

4 

show 

help 

ask 

go 

shows 

helps 

asked 

goes 

showing 

helping 

asking 

going 

give 

showing 

helping 

asking 

gave 

shows 

helps 

asked 

ice 

show 

help 

ask 

get 

sell 

got 

sold 


UNIT TWENTY 



Numbers 


1 

2 

3 

4 

one 

four 

seven 

ten 

two 

five 

eight 

first 

three 

six 

nine 

last 

going 

three 

six 

nine 

goes 

two 

five 

eight 

go 

one 

four 

seven 

showing 

asking 

helps 

goes 


22 


SPELLING BOOKS—PART ONE 


UNIT TWENTY-ONE 
At School 


1 

2 

school 

paper 

house 

pencil 

room 

ink 

last 

room 

first 

house 

ten 

school 

three 

eight 


3 

4 

window 

water 

door 

drink 

floor 

wash 

ink 

floor 

pencil 

door 

paper 

window 

seven 

first 


UNIT TWENTY-TWO 
What is alike about these words? 


1 

2 

who 

them 

what 

they 

when 

there 

drink 

when 

wash 

what 

water 

who 

house 

school 


3 

4 

why 

that 

while 

then 

where 

thing 

there 

where 

they 

while 

then 

why 

window 

drink 


SECOND GRADE 23 



UNIT TWENTY-THREE 



What is 

alike here? 


1 

2 

3 

4 

hide 

dark 

never 

game 

side 

lark 

ever 

came 

slide 

mark 

every 

same 

thing 

slide 

mark 

every 

then 

side 

lark 

ever 

that 

hide 

dark 

never 

there 

what 

thing 

while 



UNIT TWENTY-FOUR 



The Baby 


1 

2 

3 

4 

baby 

milk 

old 

home 

mother 

love 

older 

cap 

name 

kind 

oldest 

coat 

same 

name 

kind 

oldest 

came 

mother 

love 

older 

game 

baby 

milk 

old 

lark 

slide 

never 

every 


24 


SPELLING BOOKS—PART ONE 


UNIT TWENTY-FIVE 
What do these words tell? 


1 

O 

3 

4 

today 

late 

from 

around 

after 

now 

into 

under 

ago 

soon 

upon 

here 

coat 

ago 

soon 

upon 

cap 

after 

now 

into 

home 

today 

late 

from 

mother 

milk 

love 

home 



UNIT TWENTY-SIX 



Can you spell.? 


1 

2 

3 

4 

as 

feed 

fail 

day 

black 

done 

fell 

gate 

bread 

dear 

gold 

hear 

here 

bread 

dear 

gold 

under 

black 

done 

fell 

around 

as 

feed 

fail 

today 

after 

around 

upon 



SECOND GRADE 


25 


UNIT TWENTY-SEVEN 
Review 


1 

2 

ask 

school 

helping 

pencil 

going 

wash 

asked 

water 

shows 

house 

five 

they 

eight 

where 

seven 

then 

six 

when 

four 

who 


3 

4 

hide 

today 

lark 

soon 

never 

from 

ever 

under 

every 

here 

mother 

bread 

oldest 

black 

coat 

dear 

love 

fail 

baby 

hear 


THIS MORNING 

I ate oatmeal. 

I ate an orange. 

I had toast. 

I washed my face. 

I brushed my hair. 
I dressed myself. 

I came to school. 


26 


1 

tail 

tall 

tell 

hear 

gate 

day 

black 


1 

some 

none 

much 

hour 

how 

hat 

tell 


SPELLING BOOKS—PART ONE 

UNIT TWENTY-EIGHT 
What is alike in these words? 


2 

3 

4 

wolf 

bed 

hour 

work 

been 

how 

word 

beg 

hot 

tail 

wolf 

bed 

tall 

work 

been 

tell 

word 

beg 

bread 

dear 

hear 


UNIT TWENTY-NINE 


How 

many? 


2 

3 

4 

less 

hen 

hens 

more 

men 

sack 

most 

man 

sacks 

some 

less 

hen 

none 

more 

men 

much 

most 

man 

word 

beg 

hat 



SECOND GRADE 

27 


UNIT THIRTY 



Can you spell.? 


1 

2 

3 

4 

find 

lad 

out 

shall 

fine 

nice 

said 

seed 

sent 

must 

put 

live 

hens 

sent 

must 

out 

sack 

fine 

nice 

said 

sacks 

find 

lad 

put 

much 

most 

man 

sacks 



UNIT THIRTY-ONE 



The Farmer 


1 

2 

3 

4 

farm 

plow 

corn 

plant 

farmer 

plows 

wheat 

plants 

farming 

plowing 

cotton 

planting 

shall 

farming 

plowing 

cotton 

seed 

farms 

plows 

wheat 

live 

. farm 

plow 

corn 

sent 

must 

put 

live 



28 


SPELLING BOOKS—PART ONE 


UNIT THIRTY-TWO 
A Wish 


1 

2 

3 

4 

wish 

saw 

save 

bite 

want 

round 

hunt 

eating 

sleep 

apple 

sister 

thanks 

planting 

wish 

saw 

save 

plants 

want 

round 

hunt 

plant 

sleep 

apple 

sister 

farming 

plowing 

cotton 

planting 


UNIT THIRTY-THREE 
A Visit 


1 

2 

3 

4 

aunt 

car 

road 

fish 

uncle 

long 

read 

come 

father 

time 

brother 

back 

thanks 

aunt 

time 

brother 

bite 

uncle 

long 

read 

eating 

father 

car 

road 

sleep 

apple 

sister 

thanks 


SECOND GRADE 


29 


UNIT THIRTY-FOUR 
At Camp 


1 

2 

3 

4 

tent 

auto 

deer 

cut 

camp 

drive 

look 

cuts 

fire 

ride 

cook 

cutting 

back 

fire 

ride 

cook 

come 

camp 

drive 

look 

fish 

tent 

auto 

deer 

father 

time 

brother 

back 



UNIT THIRTY-FIVE 



The West 


1 

2 

3 

4 

Texas 

herd 

held 

mile 

trail 

stock 

fort 

move 

push 

cowboy 

post 

seen 

cutting 

push 

cowboy 

fort 

cuts 

trail 

stock 

post 

cut 

Texas 

herd 

held 

fire 

ride 

cook 

cuttin 


30 


SPELLING BOOKS—PART ONE 


UNIT THIRTY-SIX 
Review 


1 

2 

how 

tail 

mile 

none 

move 

more 

seen 

sacks 

hour 

hens 

tell 

most 

tall 

much 

word 

must 

work 

shall 

been 

said 


•3 

4 

fine 

eating 

plowing 

saw 

farmer 

brother 

cotton 

father 

planting 

come 

sleep 

aunt 

apple 

auto 

round 

cutting 

sister 

cuts 

thanks 

deer 


TWILIGHT 

At evening when I go to bed 
I see the stars shine overhead. 

They are the little daisies white 
That dot the meadow of the night. 

—Frank Dempster Sherman . 


SECOND GRADE 


SECOND GRADE WORD LIST 


after 

better 

Christmas 

down 

ago 

bird 

coat 

dress 

all 

bite 

cold 

drink 

apple 

black 

colder 

drive 

arm 

blow 

coldest 

dry 

around 

blue 

come 


as 

boat 

cook 

ear 

ask 

book 

cool 

eat 

asked 

box 

corn 

egg 

asking 

bread 

cotton 

eight 

ate 

bright 

cowboy 

ever 

aunt 

burro 

cut 

every 

auto 

but 

cute 

eye 

away 

buy 

cutting 

fail 

baby 

cake 

dark 

far 

back 

call 

day 

farm 

bad 

came 

dear 

farmer 

ball 

camp 

deer 

farming 

bed 

candle 

did 

fast 

been 

candy 

dinner 

father 

beg 

cap 

doll 

feed 

bell 

car 

done 

feet 

best 

chair 

door 

fell 


32 SPELLING BOOKS—PART ONE 


few 

go 

find 

goes 

fine 

going 

fire 

good 

first 

gold 

fish 

got 

five 


flag 

had 

fling 

hail 

floor 

hand 

fly 

hard 

foot 

held 

fort 

help 

found 

helping 

four 

helps 

fox 

hen 

from 

herd 


here 

game 

hide 

gate 

hit 

gave 

home 

get 

hop 

gifts 

horse 

give 

hour 

glad 

house 


how 

look 

hunt 

lost 


love 

ice 


if 

make 

ink 

man 

into 

many 

its 

mark 


meat 

jump 

men 

keep 

met 

kind 

mile 

lad 

lark 

last 

late 

lay 

leg 

milk 

more 

most 

mother 

move 

mules 

less 

must 

let 

name 

light 

near 

like 

nest 

lip 

never 

live 

new 

long 

New Year 


SECOND GRADE 


33 


nice 

pony 

save 

soft 

nine 

poor 

saw 

sold 

none 

popcorn 

school 

some 

now 

post 

see 

song 


push 

seed 

soon 

old 

put 

seen 

star 

older 


sell 

stock 

oldest 

rain 

sent 

stop 

one 

rate 

seven 

store 

open 

read 

shall 

stories 

our 

rear 

show 

story 

out 

red 

showing 


over 

rich 

shows 

table 

ox 

ride 

shut 

tail 

oxen 

ring 

sick 

take 


road 

side 

talk 

paper 

room 

sing 

tall 

pencil 

round 

sister 

tell 

planting 

run 

six 

ten 

plant 


skip 

tent 

plants 

sack 

sleep 

Texas 

play 

sad 

slide 

thanks 

plow 

said 

slow 

Thanksgiving 

plowing 

same 

snow 

that 

plows 

Santa Claus 

so 

them 


34 

SPELLING BOOKS- 

-PART ONE 


then 

try 

wash 

white 

there 

twinkle 

water 

who 

they 

two 

way 

why 

thing 

three 

uncle 

under 

well 

were 

wind 

window 

wish 

time 

wet 

today 

up 

what 

with 

told 

upon 

wheat 

wolf 

took 

walk 

when 

word 

trail 

want 

where 


true 

was 

while 

year 


SECOND GRADE 


35 


WHY WE STUDY SPELLING 

Why do we need to know how to spell? One 
reason is that we like to write letters and to get 
letters. If we do this, we should know what each 
word means and how to spell it. The words given 
here are words that all boys and girls in the Third 
Grade should be able to use properly and spell 
correctly. 

We should know that the letters of the alphabet 
are called vowels and consonants. The vowels are 
very important. We should know them. They 
are a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes w, and y. 

We will be promoted to the Fourth Grade 

1. when we can spell all of the words in the 
Third Grade Units 

2. when we can pronounce all of these words 

3. when we know the meanings of all of these 
words and can use them correctly in 
sentences. 


36 


SPELLING BOOKS—PART ONE 


When we study spelling: 

1. We look at the word and pronounce it. 

2. We look at each letter in the word. 

3. We say each letter in the word. 

4. We pronounce the word distinctly. 

5. We learn the meaning of the word. 

6. We use the word in a sentence, orally. 

7. We close our eyes and think the word. 

8. We open our eyes and look at the word again. 

9. We write the word, making each letter care¬ 
fully. 

10. We close our books and see if we can write the 
word correctly. 

11. We repeat 9 and 10 until we can spell each 
word correctly. 

We use our eyes, our ears, our hands, and our 
voices when we learn to spell. Each of these 
will help us. 



THIRD 

GRADE 

37 


UNIT ONE 



Starting 

to School 


end 

class 

desk 

teach 

state 

spell 

board 

teacher 

again 

lesson 

Monday 

good-bye. 

above 

timber 

cattle 

never 

gold 

again 

lesson 

floor 

cotton 

start 

spell 

board 

wheat 

end 

class 

desk 



UNIT TWO 


care 

harm 

Safety 

kill 

die 

watch 

hurt 

killed 

died 

corner 

danger 

drove 

crying 

board 

again 

watch 

hurt 

teach 

corner 

danger 

drove 

teacher 

watch 

hurt 

killed 

good-bye 

care 

harm 

kill 


This is my lesson. 

I can write on the board. 
The baby was crying. 


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UNIT THREE 
Directions 


east 

south 

above 

over 

west 

front 

below 

across 

north 

around 

behind 

higher 

crying 

north 

around 

behind 

died 

west 

front 

below 

die 

east 

south 

above 

corner 

danger 

drove 

east 


UNIT 

FOUR 



The 

Farm 


how 

grow 

cream 

butter 

soil 

growing 

drank 

eats 

break 

garden 

drinking 

eating 

over 

plant 

garden 

drank 

across 

soil 

growing 

drinking 

higher 

how 

grow 

cream 

below 

over 

higher 

front 


Can you finish these sentences: 

The sun sets in the . 

It is morning when the sun is in the. 

We like to eat bread and . 

There was danger around the. 






THIRD GRADE 


39 


UNIT FIVE 
Camping 


camped 

camping 

country 

fishes 

fished 

fishing 

cooked 

cooking 

warm 

please 

build 

hold 

butter 

eats 

eating 

cream 

country 

camping 

camped 

eating 

fishing 

fished 

fishes 

butter 

warm 

cooking 

cooked 

country 


UNIT 

SIX 



The Party 


child 

children 

lemonade 

dance 

dancing 

evening 

dressed 

dresses 

dressing 

guess 

guessed 

guessing 

hole 

build 

please 

cooking 

lemonade 

children 

child 

dinner 

evening 

dancing 

dance 

careful 

dressing 

dresses 

dressed 

build 


Make a list of all the words on this page 
that end in es, ed, ing. Why do we use these 
endings? 


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UNIT SEVEN 
Health 


bath 

cloth 

clean 

dirt 

soap 

dirty 

guessing 

soap 

guessed 

clean 

guess 

bath 

children 

child 


air 

fruit 

rest 

water 

sleep 

sweet 

dirty 

sleep 

dirt 

rest 

cloth 

air 

clean 

soap 


UNIT EIGHT 
The Circus 


ground 

cost 

grounds 

dollar 

circus 

dollars 

sweet 

circus 

water 

ground 

fruit 

grounds 

dirty 

lemonade 


heard 

lion 

bear 

noise 

cage 

afraid 

dollar 

cage 

dollars 

bear 

cost 

heard 

air 

fruit 


Do you know the alphabet? If so, see if 
you can arrange the new words on this page 
in alphabetical order. 


THIRD GRADE 41 

UNIT NINE 
Review 


watch 

soil 

corner 

garden 

danger 

cream 

drove 

drink 

crying 

butter 

north 

circus 

south 

dollar 

around 

heard* 

across 

lion 

higher 

noise 


clean 

camped 

soap 

country 

cloth 

fishes 

dirty 

again 

sleep 

hole 

fruit 

build 

children 

dinner 

lemonade 

start 

evening 

floor 

guess 

teacher 


AT THE CIRCUS 

We went to the circus 
We saw the clown. 

He had a donkey. 

He had peanuts. 

He did stunts. 

He had a painted face. 

He laughed. 

We laughed, too. 

We liked him best of all. 


42 SPELLING BOOKS—PART ONE 


UNIT TEN 
The Table 


tip 

fork 

side 

salt 

cover 

glass 

beside 

fill 

wide 

glasses 

left 

dine 

afraid 

wide 

glasses 

left 

noise 

cover 

glass 

beside 

lion 

tip 

fork 

side 

circus 

ground 

dollar 

wide 



UNIT 

ELEVEN 



Thanksgiving 


thank 

food 

goose 

Thursday 

meal 

place 

meat 

supper 

noon 

feast 

market 

flower 

dine 

noon 

feast 

market 

fill 

meal 

place 

meat 

salt 

thank 

food 

goose 

cover 

fork 

beside 

fill 


Cover the glasses with a cloth. 
The meal was a feast. 
Thanksgiving is a happy time. 


THIRD GRADE 


43 


UNIT TWELVE 
Parts of the Body 


toe 

face 

nails 

lash 

heel 

head 

finger 

lashes 

knee 

heart 

elbow 

brow 

flower 

knee 

heart 

elbow 

supper 

heel 

head 

finger 

Thursday 

toe 

face 

nails 

meal 

place 

meat 

flower 



UNIT THIRTEEN 

Christmas 


write 

stamp 

nut 

pudding 

letter 

stick 

gum 

December 

card 

mail 

plum 

reindeer 

brow 

dear 

mail 

plum 

lashes 

letter 

stick 

nut 

lash 

write 

stamp 

gum 

knee 

heart 

nails 

brow 

What would you 

do to make 

these words 

mean 

meal, 

more than one 
knee, head. 

: Toe, face, 

finger, elbow, 


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UNIT FOURTEEN 
Hunting 


hunt 

gun 

jump 

frost 

hunter 

horn 

jumping 

early 

hunting 

chase 

fence 

morning 

reindeer 

hunting 

chase 

fence 

December 

hunter 

horn 

jumping 

pudding 

hunt 

gun 

jump 

dear 

mail 

write 

reindeer 


UNIT FIFTEEN 
New Year 


January 

begin 

rang 

cheer 

fireplace 

beginning 

rung 

cheers 

watching 

ending 

whistle 

cheering 

morning 

watching 

ending 

whistle 

early 

fireplace 

beginning 

rung 

frost 

January 

begin 

rang 

December 

chase 

fence 

early 


The hunter blows his horn. 

The chase starts in the early morning. 
This is the beginning of a new year. 


THIRD GRADE 


45 



UNIT SIXTEEN 



The Family 


family 

son 

grand 

fond 

obey 

cousin 

grandmother dearly 

joy 

myself 

grandfather 

kindred 

cheer 

family 

myself 

grandfather 

cheers 

obey 

cousin 

grandmothe 

cheering 

joy 

son 

grand 

January 

beginning 

whistle 

pudding 



UNIT SEVENTEEN 



Word Building 


climb 

finish 

fail 

fix 

climbed 

finished 

failed 

fixed 

climbing 

finishing 

failing 

fixing 

kindred 

climbing 

finishing 

failing 

dearly 

climbed 

finished 

failed 

fond 

climb 

finish 

fail 

family 

cousin 

uncle 

dearly 


This is a lesson in word building. Look 
closely at these words and see if you can tell 
how they are built. 


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UNIT EIGHTEEN 
Review 


meal 

nails 

reindeer 

cousin 

feast 

elbow 

December 

uncle 

goose 

brow 

horn 

grandfather 

Thursday 

write 

chase 

dearly 

flower 

card 

fence 

kindred 

supper 

letter 

early 

climbed 

toe 

mail 

watching 

climb 

knee 

stamp 

rung 

finished 

heel 

plum 

cheers 

fixed 

heart 

pudding 

family 

fixing 


A GAME 

What am I thinking? 

I am thinking of a word that begins with “T.” 
It has three letters in it. You have ten of them. 
I call on Bob. 

Bob says, “You are thinking of T-o-e, toe. 
“Yes, you are it.” 

How many would like to play this game? 


THIRD GRADE 


47 


UNIT NINETEEN 
Time 


night 

month 

spring 

almost 

tonight 

week 

winter 

moment 

afternoon 

while 

summer 

moments 

fixing 

afternoon 

while 

summer 

fixed 

tonight 

week 

winter 

fix 

night 

month 

spring 

climb 

failing 

kindred 

house 



UNIT TWENTY 




At Sea 


ship 

mast 

swim 

foam 

sea 

hold 

row 

waves 

bottom 

deck 

race 

dash 

moment 

bottom 

deck 

race 

moments 

sea 

hold 

row 

almost 

ship 

most 

swim 

night 

year 

summer 

hour 


The afternoon is almost gone. 
A ship sails on the sea. 

Boys like to swim and row. 


48 SPELLING BOOKS—PART ONE 

UNIT TWENTY-ONE 


Contractions 


I’m 

hasn’t 

can’t 

shouldn’t 

I’ll 

hadn’t 

couldn’t 

doesn’t 

didn’t 

haven’t 

wouldn’t 

don’t 

dash 

didn’t 

haven’t 

wouldn’t 

waves 

I’ll 

hadn’t 

couldn’t 

foam 

I’m 

hasn’t 

can’t 

sea 

deck 

row 

foam 


UNIT TWENTY-TWO 
Animals 


wool 

fur 

hair 

pony 

lamb 

kitten 

mice 

frog 

sheep 

rabbit 

goat 

toad 

don’t 

sheep 

rabbit 

goat 

doesn’t 

lamb 

kitten 

mice 

shouldn’t 

wool 

fur 

hair 

I’m 

haven’t 

couldn’t 

doesn’t 


A toad can’t fly. 

A rabbit doesn’t sing. 
A frog hasn’t fur. 


THIRD GRADE 


49 

UNIT TWENTY-THREE 


Make a Story 


great 

prince 

hill 

crow 

king 

princess 

lock 

became 

queen 

lived 

palace 

lady 

pony 

queen 

lived 

palace 

frog 

king 

princess 

lock 

toad 

great 

prince 

hill 

hold 

ship 

waves 

swim 


UNIT TWENTY-FOUR 
The Mill 


mill 

gray 

miller 

stone 

flour 

grind 

lady 

flour 

became 

miller 

crow 

mill 

queen 

princess 


wheel 

sift 

yellow 

weigh 

turn 

sell 

grind 

turn 

stone 

yellow 

gray 

wheel 

palace 

became 


The princes lived in a palace. 

The miller will grind the wheat to flour. 
We like to see the wheel turn. 


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UNIT TWENTY-FIVE 
Easter Sunday 


Easter 

God 

Sunday 

Church 

happy 

stay 

sell 

happy 

weigh 

Sunday 

sift 

Easter 

cast 

flour 


hatched 

funny 

draw 

funnier 

drawing 

page 

going 

drawing 

Church 

draw 

stay 

hatched 

yellow 

weigh 


UNIT TWENTY-SIX 
Building Words 


drag 

fair 

dragged 

fairy 

dragging 

fairies 

page 

dragging 

funnier 

dragged 

funny 

drag 

Easter 

going 


look 

mark 

looked 

marked 

looking 

marking 

fairies 

looking 

fairy 

looked 

fair 

look 

drawing 

funnier 


Easter is a happy Sunday. 

All of the eggs hatched. 

The children were looking for fairies. 


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51 


UNIT TWENTY-SEVEN 
Review 


night 

deck 

shouldn’t 

goat 

month 

hold 

doesn’t 

toad 

year 

row 

don’t 

pony 

tonight 

race 

weigh 

great 

afternoon 

foam 

wool 

queen 

hour 

wheel 

fur 

prince 

summer 

waves 

lamb 

palace 

spring 

stone 

kitten 

crow 

sea 

couldn’t 

rabbit 

flour 

bottom 

wouldn’t 

hair 

yellow 


DO YOU KNOW 

What shines by day? . 

What shines by night? . 

What moves the clouds? . 

What hides the sun? . 

What waters the field? . 

What makes the ground white? . 

What melts the snow? . 

What sets in the west? . 

Test for the child’s understanding of vocabulary. 
The teacher reads the question and the child writes 
the word answering the question. 










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UNIT TWENTY-EIGHT 
The Mine 


dig 

iron 

felt 

shaft 

digging 

coal 

around 

taking 

miner 

lead 

about 

outside 

marking 

miner 

lead 

about 

marked 

digging 

coal 

around 

mark 

dig 

iron 

felt 

fair 

fairies 

happy 

Church 


UNIT TWENTY-NINE 
April Fool 


fool 

laugh 

forget 

dull 

fooled 

laughed 

forgot 

fellow 

fooling 

laughing 

forgotten 

honest 

outside 

fooling 

laughing 

forgotten 

taking 

fooled 

laughed 

forgot 

shaft 

fool 

laugh 

forget 

miner 

iron 

around 

coal 

See if 

you can find the missing letters 

d - g 

- a - in - 

h-p-- 

- r - n 

- e - d 

c - a - 

- au - h- -g 

a - o - t 

ar - - n - 

- ar - 

- o - 1 - d 

- el - 


third grade 


53 


UNIT THIRTY 
Comparatives 


large 

long 

dim 

kind 

larger 

longer 

dimmer 

kinder 

largest 

longest 

dimmest 

kindest 

honest 

largest 

longest 

dimmest 

dull 

large 

long 

dim 

taking 

laughed 

forgotten 

honest 


UNIT THIRTY-ONE 
Arithmetic 


half 

inch 

answer 

gallon 

third 

pint 

hundred 

empty 

part 

yard 

once 

full 

kindest 

part 

yard 

once 

kinder 

third 

pint 

hundred 

kind 

half 

inch 

answer 

fellow 

lead 

dimmer 

dimmest 


Underline the correct word 

Mary is the kinder, kindest, of the three. 
Tom is tall, taller, tallest than Jack. 

The light grew dim, dimmer, dimmest. 


54 SPELLING BOOKS—PART ONE 


UNIT THIRTY-TWO 
The Shop 


shop 

beg 

town 

speak 

city 

word 

gallon 

city 

empty 

town 

into 

shop 

half 

third 


bought 

pays 

hurry 

dime 

spent 

each 

word 

spent 

speak 

hurry 

beg 

bought 

answer 

gallon 


UNIT THIRTY-THREE 
The Park 


park 

lake 

green 

free 

July 

without 

each 

July 

dime 

green 

pays 

park 

town 

want 


flat 

jump 

even 

throw 

grew 

pond 

without 

grew 

free 

even 

lake 

fiat 

bought 

each 


Hurry to the park for a play. 

We spent the afternoon in the city. 
Speak the word and we will jump. 


THIRD GRADE 


55 


UNIT THIRTY-FOUR 
Words ending in -ing 


coming 

hearing 

holding 

thing 

flying 

having 

leading 

anything 

getting 

helping 

leaving 

jumping 

pond 

getting 

helping 

leaving 

throw 

flying 

having 

leading 

jump 

coming 

hearing 

holding 

green 

open 

grew 

free 


UNIT THIRTY-FIVE 
Texas 


cattle 

cave 

negro 

oil 

ranch 

mound 

negroes 

sand 

longhorn 

Indian 

cabin 

timber 

jumping 

longhorn 

Indian 

cabin 

anything 

ranch 

mound 

negroes 

thing 

cattle 

cave 

negro 

getting 

hearing 

leaving 

thing 


A negro is leading the cattle home. 

The negroes were getting the timber. 
Many Indian caves are found in Texas. 


56 SPELLING BOOKS—PART ONE 

UNIT THIRTY-SIX 
Review 


miner 

dull 

digging 

honest 

iron 

fellow 

coal 

large 

lead 

long 

around 

dimmest 

about 

cave 

taking 

half 

laugh 

third 

forgotten 

answer 


hundred 

July 

gallon 

timber 

mound 

Indian 

empty 

throw 

negroes 

coming 

town 

getting 

bought 

flying 

negro 

hearing 

pays 

having 

each 

cattle 


Each dash in the following stands for a letter 
of a word on this page. The phrases on the right 
will help you choose the right word. 

. (A happy expression) 

- - - - (A month) 

- - • (Something to burn) 

.(Something from trees) 

.(The red man) 





THIRD GRADE 


57 


THIRD GRADE WORD LIST 


about 

cabin 

above 

cage 

across 

camping 

afraid 

can’t 

afternoon 

card 

again 

care 

air 

cattle 

almost 

cave 

answer 

chase 

anything 

cheer 

around 

cheering 

cheers 

bath 

child 

bear 

children 

became 

church 

beg 

circus 

begin 

city 

beginning 

class 

behind 

clean 

below 

climb 

beside 

climbed 

board 

climbing 

bottom 

cloth 

bought 

coal 

brow 

coming 

build 

cooking 

butter 

corner 


cost 

dimmest 

couldn’t 

dine 

country 

dirt 

cousin 

dirty 

cover 

doesn’t 

covering 

don’t 

covers 

dollar 

cream 

dollars 

crow 

drag 

crying 

dragged 

dance 

dragging 

draw 

dancing 

drawing 

danger 

dresses 

dash 

dressing 

dearly 

drinking 

December 

drove 

deck 

dull 

desk 

didn’t 

each 

die 

early 

died 

east 

dig 

Easter 

digging 

eating 

dim 

eats 

dime 

elbow 

dimmer 

empty 


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SPELLING BOOKS—PART ONE 

end 

flour 

God 

hearing 

ending 

flower 

goose 

heart 

even 

flying 

grand 

heel 

evening 

foam 

fond 

grandfather higher 
grandmother hill 

face 

food 

gray 

hoe 

fail 

fool 

great 

hold 

failed 

fooled 

green 

holding 

failing 

fooling 

grew 

hole 

fair 

forget 

grind 

honest 

fairies 

forgot 

ground 

horn 

fairy 

forgotten 

grounds 

hundred 

family 

fork 

grow 

hunt 

feast 

free 

growing 

hunter 

fellow 

frog 

guess 

hunting 

felt 

front 

guessed 

hurt 

fence 

frost 

guessing 

hurry 

fill 

fruit 

gum 

I’ll 

I’m 

finger 

finish 

full 

funnier 

gun 

finished 

funny 

hadn’t 

inch 

finishing 

fireplace 

fur 

hair 

happy 

Indian 

into 

fished 

gallon 

harm 

iron 

fishes 

garden 

hasn’t 

January 

fishing 

getting 

hatched 

joy 

fix 

glass 

haven’t 

July 

fixed 

glasses 

having 

jump 

flat 

goat 

head 

jumping 


THIRD GRADE 


kill 

looked 

killed 

looking 

kinder 

long 

kindest 

longer 

kindred 

longest 

king 

kitten 

longhorn 

knee 

mail 

marked 

lady 

market 

lake 

marking 

lamb 

meal 

large 

meat 

larger 

mice 

largest 

mill 

lash 

miller 

lashes 

miner 

laugh 

moment 

laughed 

month 

laughing 

morning 

lead 

most 

leading 

mound 

leaving 

left 

myself 

lemonade 

nails 

lesson 

negro 

letter 

night 

lion 

noise 

look 

noon 


north 

row 

nut 

rung 

obey 

oil 

safety 

salt 

once 

outside 

over 

sand 

sea 

sell 

page 

shaft 

palace 

sheep 

park 

ship 

part 

shop 

pays 

shouldn’t 

pint 

side 

place 

sift 

plum 

sleep 

pond 

soap 

pony 

soil 

prince 

son 

princess 

south 

pudding 

queen 

speak 

spell 

spent 

rabbit 

spring 

race 

stamp 

ranch 

star 

rang 

start 

reindeer 

stay 

rest 

stick 


60 SPELLING BOOKS—PART ONE 


stone 

thing 

want 

wide 

summer 

third 

watch 

winter 

Sunday 

throw 

watching 

without 

supper 

Thursday 

water 

wool 

sweet 

timber 

waves 

word 

swim 

tip 

weigh 

wouldn’t 


toad 

week 

write 

taking 

toe 

west 


teach 

tonight 

wheel 

yard 

teacher 

town 

while 

yellow 

thank 

turn 

whistle 



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Boys and Girls : 

1. When you enter the fourth grade you should 
be able to spell all of the words that you have 
had in grades one, two, and three. When you 
have finished the fourth grade you should be 
able to spell all the words in the first four grades 
of this text. 

2. You should be able to pronounce clearly and 
correctly all the words which you have studied. 

3. You should be able to study your lesson alone 
and check your work yourself so that you know 
that you have learned it. 

4. You should know how to use the dictionary. 
The dictionary will tell you how to pronounce 
the word and also tell the meaning of the word. 

5. Before the dictionary can help you very much 
in pronounciation, you must know the value of 
diacritical marks or symbols used with letters 
to determine how they are to be stressed. 


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These symbols have meaning. When we are in 
the fourth grade we should know the names and 
value of some of these symbols. 

A line drawn over a vowel (") is called a macron 
and indicates a long sound as: 

a in gate I in kite 

e in eve o in bone 

This symbol (~) is called a breve. A breve over 
a vowel indicates a short sound as: 

a in cat T in sit 

e in get o in not 


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RIGHT SPELLING HABITS ARE 
FORMED BY 

1. Looking carefully at the word. 

2. Pronouncing correctly each word in the lesson. 

3. Learning the meaning of each word. 

4. Using each word correctly in a sentence. 

5. Closing our eyes and thinking the word. 

6. Opening our eyes and writing the word. 

7. Opening the book and checking the written 
word with the word in the book to see if we 
have spelled it correctly. 

8. Seeing that all of the letters are carefully 
formed and are on the line. 

9. Writing the word several times and comparing 
it each time with the word in the book. 

10. Studying the words with which we have had 
difficulty. 


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UNIT ONE 



The Weather 


weather 

storm 

clear 

freeze 

sunny 

thunder 

sunshine 

froze 

cloudy 

blew 

heat 

frozen 

rainy 

pour 

enjoy 

frost 

hail 

rainy 

storm 

heat 

tonight 

cloudy 

pour 

clear 

sea 

snow 

fair 

weather 

water 

wind 

warm 

cloudy 


UNIT TWO 



Our 

Food 


grocer 

butcher 

baker 

milkman 

potato 

beef 

rolls 

ice cream 

sugar 

pork 

cookies 

buttermilk 

coffee 

mutton 

gingerbread cheese 

frozen 

coffee 

lamb 

gingerbread 

freeze 

sugar 

butcher 

cookies 

thunder 

weather 

beef 

butter 

sunny 

rainy 

bread 

cream 


Be sure to put a “t” in butcher. Find two 
e’s in coffee; two t’s in mutton; two t’s in but¬ 
termilk. In what way is cheese spelled like 
freeze? 


FOURTH GRADE 


65 


UNIT THREE 
Time 


Monday 

clock 

rise 

asleep 

Tuesday 

minute 

ready 

alarm 

Wednesday o’clock 

eleven 

often 

Saturday 

yesterday 

twelve 

dream 

Sunday 

cheese 

Wednesday twelve 

Thursday 

buttermilk 

Tuesday 

eleven 

Friday 

hour 

minute 

o’clock 

today 

second 

tonight 

minute 


UNIT FOUR 



Word Building 


herself 

someone 

everybody 

anyone 

himself 

somebody 

everyone 

anybody 

ourselves 

something 

everything 

anyway 

themselves 

somewhere 

everyday 

anywhere 

dream 

ourselves 

somewhere 

everyday 

often 

themselves 

something 

everything 

yesterday 

ready 

somebody 

everybody 

enjoy 

myself 

weather 

sunny 


Tuesday has a silent “e.” 

Wednesday has a silent “d.” 

Note the apostrophe in o’clock. 

Note the “ea” in dream and weather. 


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UNIT FIVE 
Products 


citrus 

figs 

gather 

juice 

orange 

peach 

bushel 

berries 

lemon 

plum 

branch 

fresh 

grapefruit 

pear 

branches 

truck 

anywhere 

grapefruit 

pear 

bushel 

anybody 

citrus 

peach 

branches 

anyone 

orange 

sell 

lemon 

apple 

green 

sold 

tree 


UNIT SIX 
Arithmetic 


arithmetic 

triangle 

divide 

fraction 

problem 

square 

add 

half 

proved 

gain 

multiply 

one-third 

check 

loss 

subtract 

one-fourth 

truck 

proved 

square 

multiply 

berries 

arithmetic 

triangle 

subtract 

juice 

weather 

frozen 

grocer 

lemonade 

cloudy 

mutton 

butcher 


That orange is better than the berries. 

My brother will gather a bushel of pears. 
Always check your problems in arithmetic. 
Will you please give me half of that fresh 
peach? 


FOURTH GRADE 67 


UNIT SEVEN 
Miscellaneous 


born 

already 

either 

none 

die 

always 

neither 

nothing 

birth 

almost 

ought 

understand 

death 

also 

brought 

understood 

one-fourth 

death 

already 

brought 

one-half 

birth 

almost 

ought 

one-third 

die 

also 

neither 

fraction 

born 

always 

either 


UNIT 

EIGHT 



Professions 


lawyer 

doctor 

dentist 

very 

law 

nurse 

teeth 

mind 

suit 

cough 

pull 

safe 

judge 

cure 

finished 

need 

understood 

judge 

cough 

pull 

nothing 

suit 

nurse 

teeth 

none 

lawyer 

doctor 

dentist 

pays 

gain 

problem 

lawyer 


The lawyer has already finished his speech. 
With a good doctor the child ought to be safe. 
The dentist will pull your teeth. 

There is always need for a fair judge. 


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UNIT NINE 
Review 


weather 

arithmetic 

grocer 

suit 

coffee 

judge 

minute 

born 

o’clock 

birth 

yesterday 

blew 

ourselves 

pour 

herself 

beef 

citrus 

pork 

grapefruit 

Wednesday 


Tuesday 

frozen 

pear 

cheese 

triangle 

buttermilk 

square 

asleep 

cough 

often 

doctor 

dream 

either 

berries 

neither 

juice 

brought 

fraction 

freeze 

very 


Why does Tuesday begin with a capital letter? 

Divide these words into syllables: 

grocer, yesterday, arithmetic, buttermilk, frozen, 
Wednesday. 


MOTTOES 

“I am ready.” “Stick to the truth.” 

“Always be on guard.” “Be what you seem to 

be.” 


FOURTH GRADE 


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UNIT TEN 
Trees 


pecan 

cedar 

beech 

cottonwood 

walnut 

elm 

birch 

dogwood 

almond 

ash 

pine 

hackberry 

cherry 

maple 

holly 

redbud 

safe 

cherry 

maple 

holly 

very 

almond 

cedar 

pine 

need 

walnut 

elm 

birch 

dentist 

pecan 

ash 

beech 


UNIT 

ELEVEN 



Winter Sports 


football 

match 

skate 

basketball 

pass 

beat 

coast 

center 

crowd 

chance 

crack 

quick 

team 

rough 

slide 

threw 

play 

football 

rough 

skate 

throw 

crowd 

beat 

coast 

run 

team 

match 

children 

fly 

baker 

either 

finish 


See the “ar” in cedar. 

Always put “1” in almond. 

Make a list of the words having double con¬ 
sonants. 


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UNIT TWELVE 
The Trip 


train 

fare 

station 

riding 

travel 

single 

depot 

owned 

engine 

return 

started 

carriage 

railroad 

ticket 

rail 

trunk 

basketball 

railroad 

ticket 

rail 

center 

engine 

single 

depot 

threw 

travel 

fare 

station 

quick 

whistle 

half 

cheering 


UNIT 

THIRTEEN 



A Holiday 


holiday 

hope 

lovely 

holly 

present 

hoping 

loving 

mistletoe 

package 

invite 

lovingly 

bush 

sealed 

inviting 

kindness 

forest 

crowd 

sealed 

kind 

lovingly 

Christmas 

package 

kindred 

lovely 

mail 

holiday 

letter 

star 

post 

open 

present 

candle 


Please take my trunk to the railroad station. 
On a holiday many people travel on the train. 
I am hoping to get a lovely package. 

Do not wait until Christmas to show kindness. 


FOURTH GRADE 


71 


UNIT FOURTEEN 



The Months 


January.. . 

.Jan. 

July. 


February . 

.Feb. 

August ... 

.Aug. 

March .... 

.Mar. 

September 

.Sept. 

April .... 

.Apr. 

October .. . 

.Oct. 

May. 


November 

.Nov. 

June. 


December . 

.Dec. 

Tuesday 

March 

June 

September 

Wednesday 

February 

May 

August 

Saturday 

January 

April 

July 

Monday 

Feb. 

Thursday 

Aug. 

Friday 

Jan. 

Sunday 

Sept. 


UNIT FIFTEEN 



Our Newspaper 


news 

press 

report 

office 

newspaper 

print 

reporter 

member 

wore 

copy 

happen 

facts 

vote • 

matter 

happened 

used 

read 

newspaper 

matter 

reporter 

February 

lead 

copy 

happen 

over 

outside 

page 

press 

October 

morning 

noise 

wire 


Divide the words in Unit Fifteen into syllables. 
Which words have a silent “e”? 

Which words have double consonants? 














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UNIT SIXTEEN 
The Arts 


painting 

picture 

music 

poem 

painter 

d rawn 

piano 

write 

brush 

drew 

program 

wrote 

taught 

beautiful 

listen 

thought 

used 

oil 

beautiful 

listen 

office 

head 

drew 

piano 

facts 

lovely 

picture 

music 

paint 

taught 

flowers 

painter 


UNIT SEVENTEEN 



Our Vegetables 


potatoes 

cabbages 

peas 

carrots 

tomatoes 

onions 

beans 

beets 

sort 

haul 

rake 

ditch 

vegetables 

wagon 

field 

cutting 

thought 

vegetable 

wagon 

field 

wrote 

tomatoes 

haul 

beans 

write 

potatoes 

cabbage 

peas 

poem 

taught 

onions 

thought 

Children should learn 

to listen to 

a program 

of good 

music. 



Mother is 

cutting all 

sorts of vegetables for 


dinner. 

We like tomatoes, cabbage, beans, and beets. 


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UNIT EIGHTEEN 
Review 


pecan 

wire 

crowd 

walnut 

engine 

cherry 

holiday 

elm 

package 

cedar 

sealed 

maple 

January 

rough 

February 

beat 

newspaper 

match 

vote 

ticket 


inviting 

carrots 

lovely 

ditch 

holly 

cutting 

mistletoe 

rake 

forest 

wagon 

potatoes 

field 

tomatoes 

matter 

sort 

facts 

August 

used 

cabbage 

brush 


Mark the short and long vowels in these 
words. Draw a line through the silent letters. 


PROVERBS 

“Look before you leap.” 

“A cat may look at a king.” 
“The used key is always bright.” 
“All is not gold that glitters.” 


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UNIT NINETEEN 
Army 


army 

soldier 

battle 

peace 

company 

duty 

fought 

war 

drill 

order 

fight 

united 

marching 

blanket 

prison 

cause 

ditch 

company 

blanket 

prison 

field 

drill 

duty 

fight 

wagon 

army 

soldier 

fought 

haul 

noise 

sort 

battle 


UNIT TWENTY 



Clothing 


clothing 

glove 

shirts 

handkerchiefs 

gown 

collar 

waist 

umbrella 

wear 

button 

sew 

rip 

dressed 

pocket 

mend 

torn 

united 

wear 

pocket 

sew 

peace 

gown 

button 

waist 

cause 

clothing 

collar 

shirts 

dress 

clean 

glove 

evening 


Fill in the blanks: 

The army was . to battle. 

To fight is the . of a . 

We need an . when it rains. 

The . keeps us warm. 







FOURTH GRADE 


75 


UNIT TWENTY-ONE 



The Store 


bill 

price 

count 

coin 

receive 

cash 

amount 

penny 

paid 

charge 

earn 

nickel 

payment 

offer 

change 

cent 

handkerchief receive 

spend 

earn 

umbrella 

paid 

spent 

amount 

torn 

payment 

cost 

count 

wear 

dime 

asked 

cash 


UNIT TWENTY-TWO 



Spring Games 


marbles 

track 

baseball 

learn 

contest 

caught 

strike 

learning 

circle 

pole 

struck 

noisy 

rule 

dash 

follow 

quiet 

nickel 

circle 

caught 

follow 

penny 

contest 

track 

baseball 

cent 

marbles 

rule 

strike 

coin 

square 

nickel 

struck 


Every penny and nickel will count in payment 
of your bill. 

If you buy marbles for the contest, pay cash 
for them. 

James is learning to strike the baseball. 
Always follow the rules of the game. 


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UNIT TWENTY-THREE 
Wild Life 


prairie dog snake 

wolf 

owl 

muskrat 

skunk 

wolves 

geese 

raccoon 

mouse 

calf 

duck 

squirrel 

lizard 

calves 

dove 

learning 

squirrel 

lizard 

wolves 

noisy 

raccoon 

mouse 

calves 

quiet 

muskrat 

earn 

calf 

charge 

prairie 

price 

receive 


UNIT TWENTY-FOUR 
Measuring 


measure 

ruler 

pound 

whole 

pint 

inch 

ounce 

fifth 

quart 

yard 

ton 

quarter 

gallon 

mile 

weight 

sixth 

geese 

measure 

mile 

weight 

owl 

quart 

ruler 

ounce 

dove 

gallon 

inch 

ton 

quiet 

pour 

nickel 

pound 


Draw a line under the correct word: 
Two pints are a gallon, quart, ton. 
An ounce is an inch, fifth, measure. 

A pound is a weight, yard, nickel. 


FOURTH GRADE 


7 


UNIT TWENTY-FIVE 
The Body 


throat 

crown 

neck 

lungs 

forehead 

brain 

scalp 

stomach 

breathe 

throat 

breath 

forehead 

being 

scalp 

measure 

being 

UNIT TWENTY-SIX 


The Family 


body 

breath 

breathe 

being 

sixth 

whole 

quarter 

ruler 


family 

daughter 

wife 

niece 

uncle 

cousin 

father 

sister 


friend 

people 

woman 

women 

niece 

daughter 

mother 

baby 


seeing 

feeling 

walking 

talking 

women 

people 

friend 

quarter 


thumb 

flowing 

blood 

skin 

stomach 

crown 

brain 

whole 


smelling 

hearing 

breathing 

tasting 

walking 

talking 

squirrel 

raccoon 


How quickly can you find the right word? 

(Something to think with) . 

(What we breathe with) . 

(Opposite to men). 

(A pretty pet). 






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UNIT TWENTY-SEVEN 
Review 


soldier 

button 

earn 

muskrat 

blanket 

mutton 

charge 

snake 

fought 

pocket 

nickel 

skunk 

prison 

glove 

coin 

crown 

fight 

shirts 

circle 

dove 

cause 

waist 

cent 

geese 

peace 

sew 

baseball 

measure 

forehead 

umbrella 

follow 

gallon 

dressed 

receive 

strike 

ounce 

clothing 

thumb 

learn 

stomach 


Divide the words of the first two columns 
into syllables and place the accent mark. Use 
your dictionary to check your work. 


QUOTATIONS 

The pen is mightier than the sword. 

The lofty oak from the little acorn grew. 

Many receive advice, but only the wise profit by it. 


FOURTH GRADE 


79 


UNIT TWENTY-EIGHT 


Geography 


geography 

ocean 

stream 

mountain 

world 

gulf 

creek 

foothills 

country 

Pacific 

mouth 

lakes 

state 

Atlantic 

brook 

canal 

sixth 

country 

Atlantic 

stream 

fifth 

geography 

Pacific 

gulf 

whole 

world 

ocean 

flow 

measure 

mile 

river 

flowing 


UNIT TWENTY-NINE 
Verbs 


become 

could 

believe 

broken 

behave 

would 

relieve 

reach 

absent 

should 

filled 

hope 

cannot 

remain 

filling 

hoping 

subtraction 

cannot 

remain 

relieve 

multiplication absent 

would 

believe 

addition 

Pacific 

ocean 

daughter 

geography 

Atlantic 

niece 

friend 


Pick out the words that go together in these 
sentences: 

The Pacific is a mountain, a mile, an ocean. 

A river has a state, a mouth, a hope. 

A gulf is a part of a stream, a country, an 
ocean. 


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UNIT THIRTY 
Arithmetic Terms 


twenty 

sixty 

thousand 

subtraction 

thirty 

seventy 

million 

addition 

forty 

eighty 

times 

multiplication 

fifty 

ninety 

equal 

division 

reach 

fifty 

ninety 

equal 

broken 

forty 

eighty 

million 

hoping 

thirty 

sixty 

thousand 

behave 

become 

should 

remain 


UNIT THIRTY-ONE 


bridge 

The Bridge 

building begin 

nearly 

brick 

built 

beginning 

branches 

narrow 

between 

began 

heavy 

broad 

enough 

begun 

meet 

multiplication bridge 

enough 

beginning 

division 

broad 

built 

seventy 

addition 

narrow 

eighty 

sixty 

subtraction 

fifth 

ninety 

forty 


A million is twenty times fifty thousand. 

Do you like multiplication better than addition? 
They have nearly enough brick for the 
building. 

The bridge is too narrow. 


FOURTH GRADE 

UNIT THIRTY-TWO 
The Clown’s Friends 


animal 

donkey 

clown 

pointed 

tiger 

monkey 

pink 

lucky 

elephant 

colt 

short 

interesting 

zebra 

tiny 

silly 

tired 

branches 

zebra 

tiny 

silly 

heavy 

elephant 

donkey 

short 

nearly 

animal 

monkey 

pink 

narrow 

brick 

reach 

donkey 


UNIT THIRTY-THREE 
Apartment Houses 


apartment 

carry 

gas 

cellar 

telephone 

stair 

ashes 

roof 

knock 

hotel 

steam 

radio 

hello 

errand 

smoke 

stairway 

enough 

hello 

stairs 

steam 

heavy 

telephone 

errand 

ashes 

pointed 

apartment 

hotel 

gas 

interesting 

clown 

carry 

tiny 


See if you can fill in the missing letters, 
a - i — 1 d-n-y i - t - r - st - - g 

-ol- s - a - - s -p-rt-e-t 

--11- r-d-- t-.le-h-n- 


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UNIT THIRTY-FOUR 
Vacation 


picnic 

automobile 

provide 

basket 

hungry 

vacation 

deliver 

peanuts 

spread 

banana 

treat 

toast 

share 

pie 

along 

honey 

cellar 

spread 

banana 

treat 

stairway 

hungry 

vacation 

along 

roof 

picnic 

stairs 

deliver 

apartment 

bread 

hotel 

carry 


UNIT THIRTY-FIVE 



The Southwest 


round-up 

cow-puncher 

settle 

wigwam 

lasso 

stock 

Mexico 

arrow 

corral 

range 

pioneer 

aim 

steer 

branding 

settler 

chief 

peanuts 

round-up 

branding 

pioneer 

toast 

lasso 

range 

settle 

honey 

steer 

stock 

settler 

interesting 

corral 

cow-puncher Mexico 

Write the words in 
double consonants* 

this lesson 

that have 

Make a 

list of the words that have double 

vowels. 




Why does Mexico 

begin with 

a capital 


letter? 


FOURTH GRADE 

UNIT THIRTY-SIX 
Review 


believe 

division 

relieve 

bridge 

could 

narrow 

reach 

enough 

forty 

between 

fifty 

beginning 

ninety 

nearly 

million 

Mexico 

subtraction 

pioneer 

addition 

animal 


zebra 

telephone 

elephant 

apartment 

corral 

hello 

monkey 

wigwam 

colt 

steam 

silly 

cellar 

clown 

stairway 

lasso 

picnic 

interesting 

spread 

pointed 

banana 


MAXIMS 

“Lost time is never found again/’ 

“That is the way to be happy and gay.” 
“Work while you work, and play while you 
play.” 

“If a task is once begun, never leave it till 
it’s done.” 


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FOURTH GRADE WORD LIST 


absent 

Aug. 

birch 

button 

add 

August 

birth 


addition 

automobile 

blanket 

cabbages 

aim 


blew 

calf 

alarm 

baker 

blood 

calves 

almond 

banana 

body 

canal 

almost 

baseball 

born 

cannot 

along 

basket 

brain 

carriage 

already 

basketball 

branch 

carrots 

also 

battle 

branches 

carry 

always 

beans 

branding 

cash 

amount 

beautiful 

breath 

caught 

animal 

become 

breathe 

cause 

anybody 

beech 

breathing 

cedar 

anyone 

beef 

brick 

cellar 

anyway 

beets 

bridge 

cent 

anywhere 

began 

broad 

center 

apartment 

begin 

broken 

chance 

Apr. 

beginning 

brook 

change 

April 

begun 

brought 

charge 

arithmetic 

behave 

brush 

check 

army 

being 

building 

cheery 

arrow 

believe 

built 

cheese 

ash 

berries 

bush 

chief 

ashes 

best 

bushel 

circle 

asleep 

between 

butcher 

citrus 

Atlantic 

bill 

buttermilk 

clear 


FOURTH GRADE 


85 


clock 

December 

errand 

fresh 

clothing 

deliver 

everybody 

friend 

cloudy 

dentist 

everyday 

frost 

clown 

depot 

everyone 

frozen 

coast 

die 

everything 

gain 

coffee 

ditch 


coin 

divide 

facts 

gallon 

collar 

division 

family 

gas 

colt 

doctor 

fare 

gather 

company 

contest 

cookies 

dogwood 

donkey 

dove 

Feb. 

February 

feeling 

geese 

geography 

gingerbread 

glove 

copy 

drawn 

field 

corral 

dream 

fifth 

gown 

cottonwood 

dressed 

fifty 

grapefruit 

cough 

drew 

fight 

grocer 

gulf 

could 

drill 

figs 

country 

duck 

filled 

hackberry 

cow-puncher duty 

filling 

half 

crack 


finished 

handkerchiefs 

crowd 

earn 

flowing 

happen 

crown 

eighty 

football 

happened 

cure 

elephant 

foothills 

haul 

cutting 

eleven 

forehead 

hearing 


elm 

forest 

heat 

dash 

engine 

forty 

heavy 

daughter 

enjoy 

fought 

hello 

death 

enough 

fraction 

herself 

Dec. 

equal 

freeze 

himself 


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holiday 

loss 

mouse 

offer 

holly 

lovely 

mouth 

office 

honey 

loving 

multiplication often 

hope 

lovingly 

multiply 

one-fourth 

hoping 

lucky 

music 

one-third 

hotel 

lungs 

muskrat 

onions 

hungry 

maple 

mutton 

orange 

order 

ice cream 
inch 

marbles 

narrow 

ought 

Mar. 

nearly 

ounce 

interesting 

invite 

inviting 

March 

neck 

ourselves 

marching 

match 

need 

neither 

owe 

owned 

judge 

matter 

news 


juice 

May 

newspaper 

Pacific 

July 

measure 

nickel 

package 

June 

meet 

niece 

paid 

kindness 

member 

ninety 

painter 

knock 

mend 

noisy 

painting 

Mexico 

none 

pass 

lakes 

mile 

nothing 

payment 

lasso 

milkman 

Nov. 

peace 

law 

million 

November 

peach 

lawyer 

mind 

nurse 

peanuts 

learn 

minute 


pear 

learning 

mistletoe 

ocean 

peas 

lemon 

Monday 

o’clock 

pecan 

listen 

monkey 

Oct. 

penny 

lizard 

mountain 

October 

people 


FOURTH GRADE 87 


piano 

quart 

safe 

somewhere 

picnic 

quarter 

Saturday 

sort 

pictures 

quick 

scalp 

spread 

pie 

quiet 

sealed 

square 

pine 


seeing 

squirrel 

pink 

raccoon 

Sept. 

stair 

pint 

radio 

September 

stairway 

pioneer 

rail 

settle 

started 

plum 

rainy 

seventy 

state 

pocket 

rake 

sew 

station 

poem 

range 

share 

steam 

pointed 

reach 

shirts 

steer 

pole 

ready 

short 

stock 

pork 

receive 

should 

stomach 

potato 

redbud 

silly 

storm 

potatoes 

relieve 

single 

stream 

pound 

remain 

sixth 

strike 

pour 

report 

sixty 

struck 

prairie dog 

reporter 

skate 

subtract 

present 

return 

skin 

subtraction 

press 

riding 

skunk 

sugar 

price 

rip 

slide 

suit 

print 

rise 

smelling 

sunny 

prison 

rolls 

smoke 

sunshine 

problem 

roof 

snake 


program 

rough 

soldier 

talking 

proved 

round-up 

somebody 

tasting 

provide 

rule 

someone 

taught 

pull 

ruler 

something 

team 


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teeth 

tomatoes 

united 

wife 

telephone 

ton 

used 

wigwam 

themselves 

torn 


wolf 

thirty 

track 

vacation 

wolves 

thought 

thousand 

train 

travel 

vegetables 

woman 

women 

threw 

treat 

very 

vote 

wore 

throat 

triangle 

world 

thumb 

truck 


would 

thunder 

trunk 

wagon 

write 

ticket 

Tuesday 

waist 

wrote 

tiger 

twelve 

walking 


times 

twenty 

walnut 

yard 

tiny 


Wednesday 

yesterday 

tired 

umbrella 

weight 


toast 

understand whole 

zebra 


appendix 


Definitions 

1. Homonyms are words that have the same sound, 
but are spelled differently and have different 
meanings: fair, fare; hall, haul; capitol, capi¬ 
tal; rode, road. 

2. Synonyms are words that have the same or simi¬ 
lar meanings; mirth, merriment; decrease, 
diminish; obliged, compelled. 

3. Antonyms are words that have opposite mean¬ 
ings: love, hate; true, false; yield, oppose. 

4. A prefix is a syllable placed before a word to 
change the meaning: dis, dislike; un, unhappy; 
in, indirect. 

5. A suffix is a syllable placed after a word to 
modify the meaning: -ly, kindly; -ful, playful; 
-er, teacher; -able, agreeable; -ment, agree¬ 
ment; -tion, education. 

SPELLING RULES 
Forming Plurals 

1. To form the plural of most nouns, add s to the 
singular: horse, horses; tree, trees. 

2. To form the plural of a noun ending in s, x, z, 
c, ch, or sh, add es: match, matches; wish, 
wishes; fox, foxes. 


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3. To form the plural of a noun ending in y after 
a consonant, change y to i and add es: berry, 
berries; sky, skies. 

4. To form the plural of most nouns ending in f 
or fe, change f or fe to v and add es: leaf, 
leaves; wife, wives. 

5. To form the plural of numbers and letters, add 
’s: 4, 4’s; b, b’s. 

6. Some common words have irregular plurals. 
No rule applies to these words. The following 
are examples: man, men; woman, women; foot, 
feet. 

Forming Possessives 

1. To form the possessive of singular nouns and of 
plural nouns not ending in s, add the apostrophe 
and s: teacher, teacher’s desk; women, women’s 
hats. 

2. To form the possessive of plural nouns ending 
in s, add only the apostrophe after the s: ladies, 
ladies’ shoes; dogs, dogs’ ears. 

The Most Common General Rules 

1. When any suffix except -ing is added to a word 
ending in y after a consonant, change y to i: 
early, earlier; happy, happiness; try, trying. 

2. Usually drop e at the end of a word before add¬ 
ing a suffix beginning with a vowel: live, liv¬ 
ing; make, making; move, movable. 


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91 


3. When a word of one syllable ends in one con¬ 
sonant after one vowel, double the consonant 
when adding a suffix beginning with a vowel: 
ship, shipped; big, biggest; hop, hopped. 

4- When a word of two or more syllables, accented 
on the last syllable, ends in one consonant after 
one vowel, double the consonant when adding a 
suffix beginning with a vowel: refer, referred; 
begin, beginning. 


USING THE DICTIONARY 

In using the dictionary the following sugges¬ 
tions will be helpful. 

1. Learn the alphabet in order. 

2. Learn how words are arranged in a dictionary. 
Of course, “a” comes first. The second, third, 
and succeeding letters help to locate the words 
also. They come in the following order: “aa-” 
words, “ab-” words, “aba-” words, “abb-” words, 
“abc-” words, etc. 

3. Note guide words at top of page. The word on 
the left-hand side indicates the first word on 
the page and the one on the right indicates the 
last word on the page. By looking at the two 
words and knowing how words are arranged in 
a dictionary, you can tell whether a particular 
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the word. For example, in a certain dictionary 
“ably” is the word on the left and “Absalom” 
is the word on the right. “Abode” comes be¬ 
tween these words and is on the page. “Absent” 
comes after Absalom; so it is not on this page 
because “abse comes after “absa-.” 

4. As soon as possible, learn the different sounds 
of the letters as indicated by the diacritical 
markings. 

5. Note the words across the bottom of the page 
of the dictionary. You will find examples there 
that will guide you in the pronunciation of 
words. The sounds of the letters with different 
markings are indicated by simple words. 

6. You will find each word divided into syllables 
and an accent placed over the syllable that 
should be stressed in pronouncing the word. 

7. After the words, you will find small letters, such 
as n, vt, a, adv, etc. These indicate the parts of 
speech: noun, transitive verb, adjective, adverb, 
etc. 

8. Several meanings are usually given after a 
word. Study these carefully, and see which one 
best fits in the sentence where the word is used. 

9. Ask your teacher for an explanation of any 
further difficulty that you may have in finding 
words, pronouncing them, or learning their 
meanings. 


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